MICHIGAN 



3790 



MICHIGAN CITY 



The Chicago Drainage Canal and the Illinois 

 and Michigan Canal connect the lake with the 

 Mississippi River. Navigation is suspended in 

 the northern part of the lake for about four 

 months of the year, owing to ice in the Strait 

 of Mackinac, but during the warmer months 

 transportation is heavy. 



Many steamers ply on its waters between va- 

 rious resorts of the United States and Canada. 

 Among the important towns and cities on its 



LAKE MICHIGAN 

 Its cities and steamer routes. 



shores are Petoskey, Manistee, Traverse City, 

 Ludington, Muskegon, Grand Haven, Benton 

 Harbor and Saint Joseph in Michigan; Michi- 

 gan City and Gary in Indiana ; Chicago, Evans- 

 ton and Waukegan in Illinois; and Milwaukee, 

 Sheboygan, Manitowoc and Marinette in Wis- 

 consin. Its waters abound in fish, especially 

 trout and whitefish. Green Bay is the largest 

 indentation on the western coast, and Grand 

 Traverse Bay and Little Traverse Bay are the 

 largest on the eastern coast. The surface of 

 the lake is varied in the north by many islands, 



the largest being Washington Island and Beaver 

 Island. See GREAT LAKES, THE. j.s.c. 



MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF, one of the larg- 

 est and most important of the American state 

 universities and the first of these to assume 

 and maintain a position of prominence. It was 

 established by the legislature in 1837, at Ann 

 Arbor, and began its formal sessions in 1841. 

 The university maintains a college of literature, 

 science and the arts, a college of engineering 

 and architecture, schools of law and medicine, 

 a college of pharmacy, a homeopathic medical 

 school, a college of dental surgery and a gradu- 

 ate school. Courses have recently been estab- 

 lished in forestry, in marine engineering, in 

 highway and construction engineering, in aero- 

 nautics, in wireless telegraphy and in public 

 health. The graduate school has been main- 

 tained separately from the other departments 

 since 1912. Each of the university divisions 

 has its particular faculty, and each is repre- 

 sented in the university senate, where questions 

 of common interest are discussed. 



The University of Michigan was one of the 

 first American institutions to adopt coeduca- 

 tion, women having been admitted since the 

 year 1870. Since 1871, when Dr. James B. An- 

 gell became its president, its development has 

 been remarkable. It is equipped with libraries 

 containing a total of about 350,000 volumes, 

 and with valuable museums of art, science and 

 history. It maintains an astronomical observa- 

 tory. Two general hospitals, in addition to the 

 state hospital for those who are mentally dis- 

 eased, are operated in connection with the uni- 

 versity. In debating, oratory, athletics and schol- 

 arship, Michigan takes high rank among Ameri- 

 can universities. Its faculty numbers about 460 

 and the student enrolment is 7,214. H.B.H. 



MICHIGAN CITY, IND., an important ship- 

 ping point and the oldest lake port of the state. 

 It is situated in Laporte County and on Lake 

 Michigan, near the northern state line, thirty- 

 eight miles southeast of Chicago by water and 

 fifty-six miles by rail. It is on the Pere Mar- 

 quette, the Lake Erie & Western, the Chicago, 

 Indianapolis & Louisville and Michigan Central 

 railways; during the summer months excursion 

 boats make daily trips to and from Chicago. In- 

 terurban lines connect with cities in the north- 

 ern 'part of the state as far east as Elkhart and 

 west to Chicago. The first permanent settle- 

 ment was made in 1833, and the city was in- 

 corporated in 1837. In 1910 the population was 

 19,027; in 1916 it was 21,512 (Federal estimate). 

 The area is six and one-fourth square miles. 



